Conjectura

Conjectura

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrosseolidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 21.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 18.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110.1 Mya21.7 Mya115 Mya17 Mya

2 occurrences of Conjectura on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Pakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°E

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The named rock units Conjectura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conjectura and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Conjectura and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Conjectura, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Conjectura

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Conjectura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCrosseolidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1926